Encouragement for hard times - are you going to finish strong? sm

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So I can make the kind of living I was used to with less headaches and be able to do some traveling with my work.

Also will be able to buy a bigger house!!!

after being offered a job making $25/hr. with full benefits and supposedly a future?  And now we're supposed to go back to school at 50 y/o because of this govt?  Are you with the illuminati or what?

This happens to be 2006.  There are many, many people who did not finish school because they were offered jobs that paid quite well.  Unfortunately, those jobs are now being given to illegals, etc., remember "the jobs that Americans won't do?"

I won't be going back to school, I made enough money. 

I had the feeling that I'd never learn these particular doctors... for one thing, the dictation was not clear and sounded like he was in a bucket or something.. Had that quality about it that makes me not be able to catch things. I was almost in tears, not to mention blowing my line count. I even had a sample to go by, but still couldn't understand. You know, if you can't hear it, you certainly can't transcribe it... sounded like Charlie Brown's teacher, only in another language! LOL!  Again, thanks.

I feel like there is no where to go but on my own for the best money, my current service has gotten real strange on me all of a sudden and with 24 years of experience, there is nothing I cannot transcribe accurately when spoken reasonbly well.  I am not the sole wage owner at this point, am I just want this as an option, I work backup for 2 services.  Sorry about your mom's loss, I lost my grandma this year on my birthday, that is when my other service decided to make me prn.  I have my mom with me too and I had to do part of the euology, host the repast, etc.  because of the time I took off, they basically fired me

Since there have been so many changes in MQ, I am the same way on accounts I am unfamiliar with.  I notice how quickly I can type even difficult reports on my primary, and then even when I get an easy dictator on the other accounts, I still am not do not do as well. 

You will get better as times go on.  You are just nervous and understandably want to do well.  I bet in a few more months, you will feel right at home and doing just as well as you wanted. 

I wish you well in your new job.

He sounds like the type that knows better than to come to your house and violate a protection order, but you never, ever know and it's still early yet. Keep your doors locked.

My ex was "pre-protection order"  (i.e. many years back) and he got through the basement window and was sitting at my kitchen table in the pitch dark. I can still hear him sneer, "Did you have fun with your boyfriend?"

I was grocery shopping and my mother was watching the kids. I got lucky because he really didn't want to kill me, just control me.

He finally gave up on me when I found and eventually  married  a great guy that doesn't expect me to fold towels in high heels and "poofy hair".

Sad part of that story is that he also disowned his own kids. But, after 15 years, the kids have realized that it was neither my fault or theirs. Their "father" lives with me. Their "donor dad" is living 5 miles away, a recluse, and drinking himself to death.

I send him a case of vodka on his birthday every year. Just kidding! 

you can move it with you.  If you move to a place where it isn't available, you're out of the contract easily.  My son actually moved to a place where when they tried to set the satellite they found that the neighbor's trees were an obstruction and you're obviously not going to ask a new neighbor to cut down or even into trees, so they let him off the hook, no problem.  The phone company should not be a problem as long as you're moving, again you can just move it with you, unless you're moving a long distance and then you'll just cancel this one and get another wherever you move to.

I do think you need to keep this in perspective with your kids.  They are losing their daddy (almost like he died to them) whether they feel good about it right now or not.  It really couldn't hurt for all of you to get into counseling.  Eventually it will be a problem for your kids when they "miss daddy" and they "forget" (and they will since they are of young age) how bad things were when you were together.  Of course, this is JMO and others might see things differently. 

You can do it, we'll all pulling for you and saying prayers for you and your children.

I used to frequently get discouraged about the pay I was(n't) making, until I started looking at it from a different perspective, and it has helped me double my paychecks.

I think of all the positions I have worked in in the past, where I was grossly overworked and underpaid, and I would have given an arm for the opportunity to be paid more based on how hard I worked, and how much I focused.  Of course, in salaried jobs, you can work until you are blue in the face, and generally, you'll make as much as you will on a day where you just can't get moving.  Since I've always worked hard, I try to think of being paid on production as a positive thing.  I am in control of my income.  If I really work and focus, I can reward myself by having higher paychecks.  When all is said and done, if I'm not making the money I'd like to, it's no one's fault but my own.  The good thing is, I don't have to wait to find a better job or wait for my boss to notice me to change that.  I just buckle down and set some goals, and get there myself!

Also, thanks for the half-goal idea.  When I notice my numbers slipping, I use a "Power Hour" where I have to get the highest number I know I am capable of.  I keep making myself do those, until I hit that high number, and then I can go get coffee or switch the laundry or whatever.  Even when I don't hit that number for 2 or 3 tries, I've increased my production over those hours I was trying, so it helps quickly bring my numbers up.

Now, speaking of that... I've gotta go do one.   Thanks again for the tips and encouragement.